Josh Billings Quotes

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Freedom is our birthright.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.